College Woman's Handbook

From Library Journal
Written by two recent Barnard graduates, this excellent handbook provides practical advice on a wide range of topics from academic and career issues to health and sexuality. The text opens by focusing on academics: courses and registration, choosing a major, grading issues, how to study, financial aid, and more. It then proceeds to discuss personal finances, housing, health, and nutrition. The chapter entitled "Getting Ready for the Real World" contains many helpful tips on job hunting, writing resumes and cover letters, researching job opportunities, and interviewing. Each chapter features activist ideas with suggestions on how to get involved, as well as a listing of resources for further information. Interesting insights and quotes from college women around the country are interspersed throughout the book. Recommended for public and academic libraries.Barbara S. Meagher, Central Connecticut State Univ., New BritainCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Co-author Rachel Dobkin
Our goal is to provide women with all the basic information and resources they need to help them navigate the tricky waters of the college experience, milk the undergraduate years for all they're worth, and take care of themselves -- while having a good time in the process."


Midwest Book Review
Get the most from a college experience, from choosing roommates and getting help on and off campus to handling finances. Unlike most college-oriented guides which tell how to study, this is actually intended for women out on their own for the first time, and covers a range of young adult-oriented concerns which may not be common knowledge.


Book Description
Comprehensive, passionate, detailed, up-to-date: like an Our Bodies,Our Selves for undergraduate and graduate women, The College Woman's Handbook gathers together a world of information and and resources and organizes it in one accessible, 656-page reference. From managing everyday expenses, to health, sexuality and birth control, to career issues, it addresses the hundreds of specific needs, questions and concerns that college women have. Written by two recent Barnard graduates, Rachel Dobkin and Shana Sippy, here are thirty-one chapters to help college women educate themselves in and out of the classroom. There are chapters on Academics--how to choose a major and find a mentor, manage study time, and counter sexism in the classroom where male students are called on as much as 12 times more often then female students. On Money. On Living Spaces. On Travel and Study Abroad. On Wellness-common campus illnesses, body image and eating disorders. Plus religion, personal safety, activism and volunteerism, and more. Sidebars provide instant information to dozens of topics--government loans, dietary supplements, issues of campus confidentiality. And throughout, quotes from college women around the country enrich and enliven each subject.
54,000 copies in print.


From the Publisher
This book is the first comprehensive guide to address the hundreds of specific needs, questions and concerns that undergraduate women are most likely to have -- from career choices and finances, to sexuality and academics.


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Written by two recent Barnard graduates, this excellent handbook provides practical advice on a wide range of topics from academic and career issues to health and sexuality. The text opens by focusing on academics: courses and registration, choosing a major, grading issues, how to study, financial aid, and more. It then proceeds to discuss personal finances, housing, health, and nutrition. The chapter entitled "Getting Ready for the Real World" contains many helpful tips on job hunting, writing rsums and cover letters, researching job opportunities, and interviewing. Each chapter features activist ideas with suggestions on how to get involved, as well as a listing of resources for further information. Interesting insights and quotes from college women around the country are interspersed throughout the book. Recommended for public and academic libraries.-Barbara S. Meagher, Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain


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